Here’s How To Make Our Delicious “Best Butter Cake”

Anna is a native New Yorker who loves concerts, travel, good coffee, and her Jack Russell terrier, Charlie. She’s a multimedia journalist who earned her master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Her true passion for telling stories keeps her inspired.

That’s why when I came across this recipe for the “Best Butter Cake,” which includes a special and easy-to-make butter sauce, I knew I had to get my baking mitts ready.

Ingredients (cake):

2 cups sugar

1 cup butter, softened

4 eggs

1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. baking soda

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup buttermilk

Ingredients (butter sauce):

⅓ cup butter

¾ cup sugar

3 Tbsp. water

2 tsp. vanilla extract

First, preheat the oven to 325 °F. In the meantime, blend together the butter and sugar in a mixer. Carefully add the eggs, followed by the vanilla, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Then alternate between adding flour and buttermilk until it becomes a thick batter. Once done, pour the mixture into a bundt cake pan and bake for one hour. (It’s worth the wait!)

As you let it cool down for 15 minutes, heat all butter sauce ingredients in a small saucepan until it starts to bubble.

Head back to the cake and poke small holes on the surface. Now it’s time for the best part: Start pouring the delicious sauce on top. Lastly, remove it from the pan, add some powdered sugar, and — voila — perfection!

It may sound like a long list of ingredients, and it’s a bit more involved than some of the quick and easy recipes we often share — but trust me, this delicious cake is actually quite simple to make! Just watch the video below and I’m sure you’ll want to try it, too.

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